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Camera-based contactless photoplethysmography refers to a set of popular techniques for contactless physiological measurement. The current state-of-the-art neural models are typically trained in a supervised manner using videos accompanied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Xin Liu , Yuntao Wang , Sinan Xie , Xiaoyu Zhang , Zixian Ma , Daniel McDuff , Shwetak Patel

Photoplethysmography (PPG) signals have become a key technology in many fields, such as medicine, well-being, or sports. Our work proposes a set of pipelines to extract remote PPG signals (rPPG) from the face robustly, reliably, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Constantino Álvarez Casado , Miguel Bordallo López

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is a promising technology that captures physiological signals from face videos, with potential applications in medical health, emotional computing, and biosecurity recognition. The demand for rPPG tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yuting Zhang , Hao Lu , Xin Liu , Yingcong Chen , Kaishun Wu

Smart wearables enable continuous tracking of established biomarkers such as heart rate, heart rate variability, and blood oxygen saturation via photoplethysmography (PPG). Beyond these metrics, PPG waveforms contain richer physiological…

In the first half of the 20th century, a first pulse oximeter was available to measure blood flow changes in the peripheral vascular net. However, it was not until recent times the PhotoPlethysmoGraphic (PPG) signal used to monitor many…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-21 Javier de Pedro-Carracedo , David Fuentes-Jimenez , Ana M. Ugena , Ana P. Gonzalez-Marcos

Photoplethysmography (PPG) plays a crucial role in continuous cardiovascular health monitoring as a non-invasive and cost-effective modality. However, PPG signals are susceptible to motion artifacts and noise, making accurate estimation of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Shuntaro Suzuki , Shuitsu Koyama , Shinnosuke Hirano , Shunya Nagashima

This paper presents a computational solution that enables continuous cardiac monitoring through cross-modality inference of electrocardiogram (ECG). While some smartwatches now allow users to obtain a 30-second ECG test by tapping a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-20 Yuenan Li , Xin Tian , Qiang Zhu , Min Wu

Wearable measurements, such as those obtained by photoplethysmogram (PPG) sensors are highly susceptible to motion artifacts and noise, affecting cardiovascular measures. Chest-acquired PPG signals are especially vulnerable, with signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Sara Maria Pagotto , Federico Tognoni , Matteo Rossi , Dario Bovio , Caterina Salito , Luca Mainardi , Pietro Cerveri

In this paper, the relation between electrocardiogram (ECG) and photoplethysmogram (PPG) signals is studied, and the waveform of ECG is inferred via the PPG signals. In order to address this inverse problem, a transform is proposed to map…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-23 Qiang Zhu , Xin Tian , Chau-Wai Wong , Min Wu

The measurement of the pulse wave has proven to be a vital tool in medical diagnosis. Whereby most pulse wave measurements are carried out at extremities, this work proposes a system for measuring the pulse wave and the Pulse Arrival Time…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-08-06 Roman Kusche , Ankit Malhotra , Martin Ryschka , Steffen Kaufmann

Photoplethysmography (PPG) signal comprises physiological information related to cardiorespiratory health. However, while recording, these PPG signals are easily corrupted by motion artifacts and body movements, leading to noise enriched,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Tamaghno Chatterjee , Aayushman Ghosh , Sayan Sarkar

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) based on traditional frame-based cameras often struggles with motion artifacts and limited temporal resolution. To address these limitations, we introduce EMPD (Event-based Multimodal Physiological…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Qian Feng , Pengfei Li , Rongshan Gao , Jiale Xu , Rui Gong , Yidi Li

Heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV) are important vital signs for human physical and mental health. Recent research has demonstrated that photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors can infer HR and HRV. However, it is difficult to find…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Jingye Xu , Yuntong Zhang , Wei Wang , Mimi Xie , Dakai Zhu

A pulse oximeter is an optical device that monitors tissue oxygenation levels. Traditionally, these devices estimate the oxygenation level by measuring the intensity of the transmitted light through the tissue and are embedded into everyday…

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) aims to measure non-contact physiological signals from facial videos, which has shown great potential in many applications. Most existing methods directly extract video-based rPPG features by designing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Shuyang Chu , Menghan Xia , Mengyao Yuan , Xin Liu , Tapio Seppanen , Guoying Zhao , Jingang Shi

Video photoplethysmography (vPPG) is an emerging method for non-invasive and convenient measurement of physiological signals, utilizing two primary approaches: remote video PPG (rPPG) and contact video PPG (cPPG). Monitoring vitals in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Ke Liu , Jiankai Tang , Zhang Jiang , Yuntao Wang , Xiaojing Liu , Dong Li , Yuanchun Shi

This paper presents a novel approach based on pulse transit time (PTT) for the estimation of blood pressure (BP). In order to achieve this goal, a data acquisition hardware is designed for high-resolution sampling of phonocardiogram (PCG)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-08 Amirhossein Esmaili , Mohammad Kachuee , Mahdi Shabany

Hypertension is a leading risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. Traditional blood pressure monitoring methods are cumbersome and inadequate for continuous tracking, prompting the development of PPG-based cuffless blood pressure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Hui Lin , Jiyang Li , Ramy Hussein , Xin Sui , Xiaoyu Li , Guangpu Zhu , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos , Zijing Zeng , Yelei Li

Our research is related to the employment of photoplethysmography (PPG) and laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF) techniques (measuring the blood volume and flux, respectively) for the peripheral vascular system. We derive the governing equations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-27 Denis S Goldobin , Irina A Mizeva

This work proposes a smartphone video-based approach for the estimation of blood glucose in a non-invasive way. Videos using smartphone camera are collected from the tip of the subjects finger and the frames are subsequently converted into…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-02 Tauseef Tasin Chowdhury , Tahmin Mishma , Md. Saeem Osman , Tanzilur Rahman